[A bit of a laugh.] Uh, short version, I've technically lived the same year or so about forty times? I only remember one, but apparently I was the one person who kept coming back and playing out, like, the same story every time? A volunteer tomato is that one stubborn tomato vine that keeps coming back and bearing fruit. It volunteers. That's me, apparently.

[He waves. Hi.]

[The exhaustion is kinda clinging to him, muting his usual frenetic energy, but there's still a little of it. Enough to feel like it's still him.]

I, um, really am okay though. I'll talk to Astarion in a couple days, let him, you know. Chill out.